Warnings That Call Us to Faithfulness
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Christian life is not a thoughtless life—it requires intentional dedication to the Lord. Today, W. Robert Godfrey demonstrates how the warnings in the book of Deuteronomy are relevant and insightful for God’s people today.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California. He is the featured teacher for many Ligonier teaching series, including the six-part series A Survey of Church History. He is author of many books, including God’s Pattern for Creation, Reformation Sketches, and An Unexpected Journey.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Reform theology quite right says that any individual who has true faith, any individual who has been |
| 0:06.2 | regenerated by the Spirit of God will be preserved by God to everlasting life. But while that's true |
| 0:12.3 | of individual Christians, that same promise has not been made to congregations. What we see in the |
| 0:18.9 | book of Revelation, both in the letters and in the vision of |
| 0:22.9 | Christ walking in the heavenly temple amongst the landstand, is serious warnings to churches |
| 0:28.3 | that as congregations they may prove faithless. |
| 0:43.5 | Yesterday, we began looking at the warnings Moses gave to the Israelites in the final chapters of Deuteronomy. |
| 0:45.7 | And as we continue our study of these warnings, detailed and lengthy warnings, it raises |
| 0:51.2 | the question of how they are relevant, if at all, for you and me living in the 21st century. |
| 0:57.5 | That's one of the questions W. Robert Godfrey will address on this Tuesday edition of renewing your mind |
| 1:03.2 | as you get just a little taste of his extensive series, Discovering Deuteronomy. |
| 1:09.4 | Tomorrow is the final day that will be in this series, so don't forget that if you'd like to own Discovering Deuteronomy. Tomorrow is the final day that will be in this series, |
| 1:12.8 | so don't forget that if you'd like to own Discovering Deuteronomy, you can request it online |
| 1:17.6 | at Renewing Your Mind.org or by using the link in the podcast show notes when you give a donation |
| 1:23.2 | of any amount in support of renewing your mind. Thank you. |
| 1:31.3 | Well, here's Dr. Godfrey in Chapter 28 of Deuteronomy, |
| 1:34.8 | continuing his study of these warnings for God's people. |
| 1:42.6 | Well, we're looking at the section in Deuteronomy that we're calling warnings, |
| 1:47.8 | a section parallel to the warnings at the beginning of the book, a reminder about the seriousness with which God takes his covenant with his people |
| 1:54.3 | and the call to faithfulness that God issues there. And these closing sections of the book, we might say, |
| 2:03.6 | the warning section and the history section, these closing sections in a way are clearer in |
| 2:09.7 | their meaning. You know, as we were looking at through some of the laws, we scratched our head a little |
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